Wordfast Translation Memory

The Wordfast format, as used by the Wordfast translation tool, is a simple tab delimited file.

The storage format can read and write Wordfast TM files.

Conformance

  • Escaping -- The format correctly handles Wordfast &'XX; escaping and will unescape and escape seamlessly.

  • Soft-breaks -- these are not managed and are left as escaped

  • Replaceables -- these are not managed

  • Header -- Only basic updating and reading of the header is implemented

  • Tab-separated value (TSV) -- the format correctly handles the TSV format used by Wordfast. There is no quoting, Windows newlines are used and the \t is used as a delimiter (see issue 472)